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Graduate and undergraduate degrees were conferred for 702 spring graduates at University of Nebraska at Kearney commencement exercises Friday, May 17, at UNK’s Health and Sports Center.

In December, 1963, Life published a special issue on “The Movies.” The United States, the magazine asserted, had fallen behind the rest of the world. Hollywood was too timid, too worried about the national “image.” Meanwhile, Swedish, Japanese, Italian, and French filmmakers were making movies that people talked about. “While the whole film world has been buzzing with new excitement,” the magazine concluded, “Hollywood has felt like Charlie Chaplin standing o...

How Jon Voight Landed His Big Break in ‘Midnight Cowboy’ (Guest Blog) Voight wasn’t the first choice to play the role of a male hustler opposite Dustin Hoffman, recounts writer Glenn Frankel Glenn Frankel Guest Writer Last Updated: March 15, 2021 @ 2:58 PM Photo: Getty Images Aspiring young actors in New York in the 1960s came in many shapes and psyches. There were angry ones and cynical ones and sincere ones and intense ones. But there weren’t many joyful ones....